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![9-1-2021 My summer sweater is done! YAY!! Summer Romance knit top with lace sleeves and back. In Universal Yarn Cotton Supreme, color 633 Ocean.](https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/804260109/20210901_100943_medium.jpg)
9-1-2021 My summer sweater is done! YAY!! Summer Romance knit top with lace sleeves and back. In Universal Yarn Cotton Supreme, color 633 Ocean.
![9-1-2021 Summer Romance knit top with lace sleeves and back. In Universal Yarn Cotton Supreme, color 633 Ocean.](https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/804260104/20210901_100905_medium.jpg)
9-1-2021 Summer Romance knit top with lace sleeves and back. In Universal Yarn Cotton Supreme, color 633 Ocean.
![9-1-2021 The lace back.](https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/804260102/20210901_100342_medium.jpg)
9-1-2021 The lace back.
![9-2-2021 Summer Romance knit top front view. This is taken after washing, drying, wearing.](https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/804430648/20210902_093239_medium.jpg)
9-2-2021 Summer Romance knit top front view. This is taken after washing, drying, wearing.
![9-2-2021 Summer Romance knit top view of the lace back. This is taken after washing, drying, wearing.](https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/804430646/20210902_093423_medium.jpg)
9-2-2021 Summer Romance knit top view of the lace back. This is taken after washing, drying, wearing.
![9-2-2021 Summer Romance knit top close up of lace back.](https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/804430647/20210902_093434_medium.jpg)
9-2-2021 Summer Romance knit top close up of lace back.
![9-2-2021 Summer Romance knit top detail of side eyelets and pattern repeat additions, right side. You can see evidence of sloppy (too tight?) weaving in of the ends. :(](https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/804430649/20210902_093508_medium.jpg)
9-2-2021 Summer Romance knit top detail of side eyelets and pattern repeat additions, right side. You can see evidence of sloppy (too tight?) weaving in of the ends. :(
![9-2-2021 Summer Romance knit top detail of side eyelets and pattern repeat additions, left side.](https://images4-f.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/804430653/20210902_093531_medium.jpg)
9-2-2021 Summer Romance knit top detail of side eyelets and pattern repeat additions, left side.
![9-2-2021 Summer Romance knit top detail of longer sleeve and decreases before garter cuff to create tighter fitting sleeve.](https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/804430651/20210902_093646_medium.jpg)
9-2-2021 Summer Romance knit top detail of longer sleeve and decreases before garter cuff to create tighter fitting sleeve.
![9-2-2021 Summer Romance knit top underarm view to see longer sleeve, side eyelets, and back pattern repeat additions.](https://images4-f.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/804430657/20210902_093752_medium.jpg)
9-2-2021 Summer Romance knit top underarm view to see longer sleeve, side eyelets, and back pattern repeat additions.
![9-1-2021 Front view of Summer Romance knit top with lace sleeves. You can see in this photo that I bound off the bottom of the body too (one size up) to bind off the sleeves and they look great.](https://images4-f.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/804260106/20210901_100811_medium.jpg)
9-1-2021 Front view of Summer Romance knit top with lace sleeves. You can see in this photo that I bound off the bottom of the body too (one size up) to bind off the sleeves and they look great.
![9-1-2021 All done!](https://images4-f.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/804260105/20210901_100244_medium.jpg)
9-1-2021 All done!
![9-1-2021 My sleeve modifications worked great!](https://images4-f.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/804260110/20210901_100315_medium.jpg)
9-1-2021 My sleeve modifications worked great!
![Photo from pattern page. https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=8623&cid=17](https://images4-f.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/801564321/22e-2_medium.jpg)
Photo from pattern page. https://www.garnstudio.com/pattern.php?id=8623&cid=17
![8-17-2021 Yes, the needles are still in, which is stretching it out some, but I don't think a couple of garter ridges is going to do much to make this sleeve look like the pattern sleeve.](https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/801561982/20210817_094358_medium.jpg)
8-17-2021 Yes, the needles are still in, which is stretching it out some, but I don't think a couple of garter ridges is going to do much to make this sleeve look like the pattern sleeve.
![8-17-2021 Armhole is much too low and wide. Looks sloppy and unappealing.](https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/801561981/20210817_094551_medium.jpg)
8-17-2021 Armhole is much too low and wide. Looks sloppy and unappealing.
![8-6-2021 Front view stockinette side.](https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/799626086/20210806_080903_medium.jpg)
8-6-2021 Front view stockinette side.
![8-6-2021 Back view of lace pattern.](https://images4-f.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/799626084/20210806_081055_medium.jpg)
8-6-2021 Back view of lace pattern.
![7-23-2021 Back view -- sleeves separated from body. Yes, one of my lifelines started to pull out. But I guess it's all okay now.](https://images4-f.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/797180398/20210723_110500_medium.jpg)
7-23-2021 Back view -- sleeves separated from body. Yes, one of my lifelines started to pull out. But I guess it's all okay now.
![7-23-2021 Front view -- sleeves separated from body](https://images4-f.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/797180395/20210723_110136_medium.jpg)
7-23-2021 Front view -- sleeves separated from body
![7-6-2021 The back lace panel.](https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/794350661/20210706_153500_medium.jpg)
7-6-2021 The back lace panel.
![7-6-2021 It's going along pretty nicely now.](https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/794350660/20210706_153352_medium.jpg)
7-6-2021 It's going along pretty nicely now.
![7-5-2021 I added stitch markers after each pattern repeat to keep track of where I am. Also lifelines.](https://images4-f.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/794115599/20210705_090251_medium.jpg)
7-5-2021 I added stitch markers after each pattern repeat to keep track of where I am. Also lifelines.
![6-26-2021 The garter stitch edge and the first repetition of the lace pattern. In addition to the markers suggested in the pattern, I placed a marker on the back (the light teal safety pin marker) where it switches from the A2 chart to the A3 chart, so I don't lose track.](https://images4-g.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/792558703/20210626_120341_medium.jpg)
6-26-2021 The garter stitch edge and the first repetition of the lace pattern. In addition to the markers suggested in the pattern, I placed a marker on the back (the light teal safety pin marker) where it switches from the A2 chart to the A3 chart, so I don't lose track.
![6-26-2021 The requisite "before" photo. :-)](https://images4-f.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/792558702/20210626_120336_medium.jpg)
6-26-2021 The requisite "before" photo. :-)
![A month ago when I bought the yarn, I knitted this tarot bag as a swatch and also to practice the lace pattern.](https://images4-f.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/792558711/20210626_121138_medium.jpg)
A month ago when I bought the yarn, I knitted this tarot bag as a swatch and also to practice the lace pattern.
![The swatch tarot bag, with a deck in it.](https://images4-f.ravelrycache.com/uploads/joyvernon/792558708/20210626_121108_medium.jpg)
The swatch tarot bag, with a deck in it.
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Summer Romance
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About this pattern
by DROPS design
from Drops 188
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About this yarn
by Universal Yarn
Worsted
100% Cotton
180 yards
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100
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- Project created: June 25, 2021
- Finished: September 1, 2021
- Updated: September 8, 2021
- Progress updates: 8 updates